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High Mountains in the Baltic Sea Basin Chapter 2 High mountains in the Baltic Sea basin Joanna Pociask-Karteczka 1, Jarosław Balon 1, Ladislav Holko 2 1 Institute of Geography and Spatial Management, Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland, [email protected] 2 Institute of Hydrology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Slovakia Abstract : The aim of the chapter is focused on high mountain regions in the Baltic Sea basin. High mountain environment has specific features defined by Carl Troll. The presence of timberline (upper tree line) and a glacial origin of landforms are considered as the most important features of high mountains. The Scandianavian Mountains and Tatra Mountains comply with the above definition of the high mountain environment. Both mountain chains were glaciated in Pleistocene : the Fennos- candian Ice Sheet covered the northern part of Europe including the Scandinavian Peninsula while mountain glaciers occurred in the highest part of the Carpathian Mountains. Keywords : U-shaped valleys, glacial cirques, perennial snow patches, altitudinal belts The Baltic Sea and its drainage The Baltic Sea occupies a basin formed by glacial basin – general characteristic erosion during three large inland ice ages. The latest and most important one lasted from 120,000 until ap. The Baltic Sea is one of the largest semi-enclosed seas 18,000 years ago. The Baltic Sea underwent a complex in the world. The sea stretches at the geographic lati- development during last several thousand years after tude almost 13° from the south to the north, and at the the last deglaciation. At present it exhibits a young geographic longitude 20° from the west to the east. As a shallow epicontinental sea, it is cut off from the Table 2.1. Characteristics of the Baltic Sea (Andersen et al. ocean having only a narrow connection with the Atlan- 2006, Håkanson et al. 2003a, https ://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Baltic_Sea). tic through the Danish belts (Skagerrak, Kattegat). The present connection with the North Sea was established Attribute Baltic Sea 7000 years ago. The Baltic Sea is connected by artifi- Geographical latitude [°N] 53 – 66 cial waterways to the White Sea via the White Sea Ca- Geographical longitude [°E] 10 – 30 nal and to the German Bight of the North Sea via the Area (including Kattegat) [km2] 415,266 Kiel Canal. The Baltic Sea is divided into the following Max. length [km] 1,601 units : Baltic Sea Proper, Bothnian Bay, Bothnian Sea, Max. width [km] 600 Gulf of Finland, Gulf of Riga, and Kattegat (Fig. 2.1). It is about 1300 km long, on average of 193 km wide, and Average depth [m] 52.3 an average of 55 m deep. The maximum depth is 459 m Max. depth [m] 459 (Landsort Deep). The surface area is ap. 392,979 km² Water volume [km3] 21,721 (without Kattegat), and the volume ap. 22,000 km3. Approximate shore length 8,100 The periphery amounts 8100 km of coastline (Table 2.1, Average salinity [‰] 7 Andersen et al. 2006, Håkanson et al. 2003b). Drainage basin [km2] 1,720,270 18 Fig. 2.1. The Baltic Sea basin (red line – the Baltic Sea watershed, background map from https://topotools.cr.usgs.gov/). aquatic ecosystem. The Baltic Sea is a brackish water – it is large, body of salinity 7 – 15‰, meaning that it is neither – very shallow, a fresh water, nor a fully marine water (a fully marine – it is a sheltered inland sea with many coastal types, environment has salinity 35‰). The present condi- – it has brackish water, tions of low salinity prevail approximately in the last – it is located mostly in the cold climate, 3000 years. Winter ice cover makes the life conditions – it has a heavily industrialized catchment area with for fauna and flora difficult. The sea is rich in nutrients a large population and intensive land use, and it is polluted. There are following reasons why the – it is sensitive to environmental impact, Baltic Sea is a unique aquatic ecosystem (Håkanson – its pollution represents threat for people, flora and et al. 2003a) : fauna. 19 These specific features of the Baltic Sea are influ- Table 2.2. Altitudinal belts in the Baltic Sea basin (calcu- enced by the drainage area which spreads ap. 2500 km lated on the base of https ://topotools.cr.usgs.gov/). from the south (Carpathian Mountains) far to the Area north (Scandinavian Mountains). This long north- Altitude south extension causes differences in climatic condi- [km2] [%] tions and a few climatic patterns occur there : transi- 0 – 200 1,239,652.00 72.062 tional temperate warm, transitional temperate cool, 200 – 600 406,164.30 23.610 continental, cool. The growing season in the far 600 – 1000 63,666.15 3.701 north is short (a polar day). The drainage area of the 1000 – 1500 10,098.03 0.587 2 entire basin comprises 1,720,270 km , which is more 1500 – 2000 646.51 0.038 than four times larger than the entire water area of 2000 – 2600 42.56 0.002 415,266 km2 (Table 2.1). The area of 14 countries which Total 1,720,269.55 100.000 are located in in the Baltic Sea basin represents about 15% of the area of Europe (Sweden, Finland, Russian Federation, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Belarus, Po- high mountains, therefore he may be called a pioneer land, Germany, Denmark and small parts of Ukraine, in modern high-mountain geography. Troll developed Norway, and Slovak and Czech republics). The Baltic some ideas of Alexander von Humboldt, especially on Sea basin is densely populated (85 million) and heavily the three-dimensional character of climate (i.e. the industrialized. The main environmental challenges are change of climate by latitude, longitude and elevation) eutrophication, heavy metals, dioxin, DDT, PCB, PAH and its influence on the distribution pattern of altitu- and organic tin compounds, alien invasive species, dinal belts, vegetation belts, lifeforms and also on deliberate illegal discharges from ships, growing risk certain landforms (Holtmeier 2015). Timberline (tree of oil accidents from oil field exploitation and rapidly line) position in a high-mountain landscape is the growing oil transport, as well as nuclear safety (Sund- most conspicuous and ecologically very important ström, Andersson 2003). vegetation boundary in most high-mountain land- The Baltic Sea basin is composed of a complex of scapes. Troll expressed his scientific opinion in the pa- geographical landforms with a high diversity over per entitled “High mountain belts between the polar the area. The lowland (0 – 200 m a.s.l.) dominates and caps and the equator : their definition and lower limit ” occupies 72.1% of the whole basin. Lowland spreads published in Arctic and Alpine Research in 1973. High around the Baltic Sea forming a broad area of the for- mountain landscape has the following features that ested lakelands. After the ice sheet melted away the distinguish it from other landscape types (Balon 2000, land had been shaped to form a large number of lakes 2002 ; Kotarba, Migoń 2010 ; Kozłowska, Rączkowska (lakes account for 6.1% of the whole Baltic Sea basin). 2009 ; Troll 1973) : The contribution of mountainous area elevated over – it rises above the upper forest limit and above Pleis- 600 m a.s.l. accounts 4.3% and areas over 1000 m a.s.l. tocene snow line 1, represent merely 0.6% (Table 2.2). There are following – it has a glacial origin, and hence also features, which mountains in the Baltic Sea drainage basin : Scandina- do not exist in other mountains (e.g. glacial cirques, vian, Sudeten, Beskid, Pieniny, and Tatra. Despite their steep rocky crests, cirque lakes, glaciated rocky small share in the Baltic Sea basin, the mountains play knobs, striated rock walls), a key role in the environment and human life (Rydén – its evolution is affected by the geomorphological 2019). Noteworthy are the high mountains – areas of processes that are specific only for high mountains, distinct environments with spectacular and specific e.g. the periglacial ones, features. – is characterized by a definite physiognomy : a mosa- ic-stripe structure, with highly differentiated units, High mountains – what does it mean? – it is a very dynamic system of landscape processes, mainly the geomorphologic ones, The geographical term “ high mountains ” has been – human impact is more limited there than in other strictly defined since the Carl Troll (1899 – 1975), areas. a German geographer and botanist, was engaged These prerequisites for high mountain environment in ecology and geography research of mountainous are fulfilled in the Baltic Sea drainage basin in the lands. He gave the main concepts and terminology of Scandinavian Mountains and Tatra Mountains. 1 Refers to the altitude where the accumulation of snowfall equals ablation (called also equilibrium line). 20 Scandinavian Mountains The Scandinavian Mountains run through the Scandi- navian Peninsula and form the second longest moun- tain range in Europe (after the Ural Mountains). They occupy the western and northern part of the Fennos- candia Peninsula, stretch by a strip up to 200 km wide and 1700 km long, in the territory of Norway, Sweden and partly in Finland. Along its central part, moun- tain height is strongly variable with peaks higher than 2100 m a.s.l. only in south central Norway and in northern Sweden. Mountain height is particularly low in the southernmost and northernmost parts, but also relatively low in the central parts. The southern part of the Scandinavian Mountains is broader and consists of a series of plateaux and gently undulating surfaces that hosts scattered inselbergs (Rudberg 1969). It contains Galdhøpiggen (2469 m a.s.l.) in Norway – the high- est peak in the Scandinavian Mountains (Jotunhei- men range), whereas Kebnekaise located in Swedish Lapland about 150 km north of the Arctic Circle is the highest peak of the Scandinavian Mountains with- in the Baltic Sea basin.
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